Who are Acis Group?
We began as a social landlord providing homes in West Lindsey. Now we provide over 7,000 affordable homes across the East Midlands, Yorkshire and the Humber. Our homes include ones for affordable rent, Shared Ownership, people aged 55 and over and supported housing – but now, we do so much more. We take our roles in our customer’s lives seriously, putting them first in everything we do. And as part of that we’ve grown to provide wider services to truly support the communities in which we work.
In addition, there are over 4,000 learners a year are supported in local communities stretching from Sheffield to Mablethorpe – with everything from entry level qualifications, arts and wellbeing courses through to employability support to help people fulfil their potential. This is through Riverside Training, our employment and skills team, and CLIP, an education provider.
Your role is all about helping people see the possibilities, engaging them to sign up to our services that could help them succeed. You will ensure that everyone receives the correct support throughout there individual journey.
This is a fixed term contract until 31st March 2025 and will be based at our site in Mablethorpe.
As an Support and Engagement Coach, a typical day might include:
1. Working with local groups, organisations, partners including universities and support services and internal teams to identify and recruit new people to our services.
2. Identify and coordinate new routes to market likely to lead to increased engagement and participant numbers.
3. Proactively promote and market our services to ensure people know what we offer, how they can sign up and what they can expect, including management of hub based social channels and local marketing initiatives.
4. Provide a clear overview of support needs as part of our warm handover to our wider teams for their continued support.
5. Owning the customer support journey for your area, working with customers on an individual and group basis, assessing their skills, barriers and challenges and supporting them to produce a personalised action plan
6. Ensuring the hub is buzzing with activity – leading the customer service excellence on site through hub site management, general site-based administration and preparation for activities every day.
7. Ensuring site cover is in place at all times of opening.
8. Following up on enquiries, checking in to ensure satisfaction, and supporting when it is not achieved.
9. Following up with all participants after attendance, discussing next steps and booking into their next part of their journey.
10. Working as part of the wider engagement team to ensure cover at events, all hubs and activities as required.
11. Building relationships with a wide range of other local support services to ensure we can offer a full and holistic package of support, meeting all participant and contract needs.
What we are looking for:
12. General awareness of health and safety and building management
13. Are comfortable with, and can engage with people both 1-2-1 and in groups
14. Strong communicator with excellent customer service experience and skills
15. Ability to work as a team, under pressure and in a fast-paced environment
16. A good understanding of the barriers faced by people, and the solutions that may be able to benefit them
17. Ability to work collaboratively with others, whether in the same team or external support providers
18. Good IT skills, with an eye for detail that’s second to none.
19. You’re a positive, energised and enthusiastic person, with a real zest for helping others
20. Engaging and supporting people is what gets you up every day
21. Nothing makes you happier than seeing someone progress, knowing you helped them get there.
22. Resilience. Working in the education, support and employment sectors is a challenging but rewarding career. You’ll be helping to bring real change to peoples’ lives.
What will make you stand out from the crowd:
23. Qualification in Mentoring, Advice and Guidance or similar, or a mental health qualification
24. MHFA qualified
25. First Aid Trained
26. Ability to deal with challenging behaviour at times
27. An understanding of the different local services available for customers
28. You’re interested in supporting the wider team with our wellbeing activities, learning opportunities or employment support – and have some skills to offer in this area
29. You’ll be adept at change, having got hands-on experience living and breathing new ways of working and knowing how to bring your colleagues along for the experience.
Being part of the Acis team, you’ll get:
30. Generous holiday entitlement – At least 25 days annual leave every year, plus bank holidays
31. Enhanced pension contributions up to 4%
32. The opportunity to undertake professional training, funded by us.
33. Staff benefits with Paycare – A health and benefits scheme giving you support and contributions towards various health benefits such as counselling, eye tests, vaccinations and much more
34. Benefits with Acis Perkz – a discount scheme giving you savings off hundreds of schemes including discounts on your coffee, weekly shop, days out and much more!
35. Employee recognition scheme, where we celebrate and award our Stars within Acis, including gift vouchers
36. Long service awards for our loyal employees
37. Cycle to work scheme
38. Enhanced sick pay scheme
39. Enhanced maternity and paternity scheme to support you and your family
40. Employee Assistance Programme to give you confidential advice and support, when you need it
41. Professional membership subscription to support your continuous professional development
42. Death in service benefit
Please note you wlll be required to pass an Enhanced DBS Check (we will pay for this) due to the nature of the role and the people you might be working with. As soon as a suitable candidate is found for this role we reserve the right to close the job advert ahead of the closing date, so please do not delay in submitting your applicat ion.
Acis are committed to equality and diversity, are a proud member of disability confident and welcome applications from any applicant who feel they hold the essential skills to fulfil the role. We recognise that people need flexibility in their role and we’re happy to discuss flexible working options with the successful candidate in addition to any aid with interviewing that you might need.
As soon as a suitable candidate is found for this role we reserve the right to close the job advert ahead of the closing date, so please do not delay in submitting your applicat ion.